The Orwellian War On Skepticism

Submitted by Robert Parry via Strategic-Culture.org,
Under the cover of battling ‘fake news,’ the mainstream U. S. news media and officialdom are taking aim at journalistic skepticism when it is directed at the pronouncements of the U. S. government and its allies.
One might have hoped that the alarm about ‘fake news’ would remind major U. S. news outlets, such as The Washington Post and The New York Times, about the value of journalistic skepticism. However, instead, it seems to have done the opposite.

Author George Orwell
The idea of questioning the claims by the West’s officialdom now brings calumny down upon the heads of those who dare do it. ‘Truth’ is being redefined as whatever the U. S. government, NATO and other Western interests say is true. Disagreement with the West’s ‘group thinks,’ no matter how fact-based the dissent is, becomes ‘fake news.’
So, we have the case of Washington Post columnist David Ignatius having a starry-eyed interview with Richard Stengel, the State Department’s Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy, the principal arm of U. S. government propaganda.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 3, 2016.

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